We are growing

With over 1,500 lawyers operating from 40 offices and associated offices in six continents, we advise corporates, financial institutions, private individuals, and governments across a wide range of contentious and transactional matters.

Our growth mirrors our clients across the whole spread of their operations, through this expansion we have become expert in assisting businesses to enter, operate and grow in new and emerging markets.

Our work

A pioneering heritage and an ambitious outlook.

Building on our origins and concentrated expertise in the insurance market, our capability now extends across a considerable range of sectors and into every facet of international trade.

The firm has a long history of working in frontier and emerging markets. It is the largest international firm in the Middle East, has grown from three to now ten Asia Pacific locations in the past two years and has a rapidly expanding network in The Americas.

Our values

A global outlook

We mirror our clients' operations and are early movers into key hubs for international commerce.

A comprehensive practice

Our capability now covers every facet of the insurance and international trade markets.

A commitment to clients

We use our knowledge and experience to steer clients through the diverse commercial challenges they face.

A distinct approach

We couple deep experience with an open, dynamic environment capable of quickly evolving.

Facts & figures

1,500

Lawyers

5x

Law Firm of the Year

40

International Offices

1st

No. 1 for Insurance

Our history

2014

Brisbane office opens

Clyde & Co South Africa offices launch

Clyde & Co open offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town and are now trading in South Africa.

The offering in Johannesburg and Cape Town will initially focus on dispute resolution across the firm's core sectors of insurance, trading, aviation, natural resources, transportation and infrastructure. The team are highly regarded in the South African legal market and have vast experience advising both domestic and international clients.

Clyde & Co take 18 'Law firm of the Year' awards across Asia and MENA regions

Clyde & Co has been awarded 18 ‘Law Firm of the Year’ category wins and 16 Honourable Mentions in an annual survey of over 21,000 in-house counsel and senior company directors across the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, including being named ‘Most Responsive International Firm’, in the UAE for the fifth year running.

The survey also named Clyde & Co as 'Most Responsive International Firm' for Indonesia, while Clasis Law, Clyde & Co’s associated firm in India, was awarded ‘Most Responsive Domestic Firm’ in India.

Clyde & Co to establish fully integrated office in Saudi Arabia

Clyde & Co has obtained the formal approval from the authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) that will enable it to open a fully integrated Clyde & Co office in Riyadh.

Clyde & Co has been providing advice and assistance to its clients in relation to their operations in Saudi Arabia via its associated law firm in Riyadh, Abdulaziz Al-Bosaily Law Office, since 2009. The move to a fully integrated Clyde & Co office is a major step forward for Clyde & Co in KSA providing a solid platform for further expansion of its KSA business. The firm will be only one of two global law firms operating in KSA to move away from the traditional associated office structure.

Clyde & Co is delighted to announce that James Burns has today become Senior Partner of Clyde & Co

Michael Payton, who served as Clyde & Co's senior partner from 1984 to 2013 and who has overseen the extensive growth of the firm, now assumes the role of Chairman.

James said:

"This is a great honour for me personally and I am very grateful for the support partners and staff have given me over the past year of transition. Clyde & Co is now a firm with 35 offices around the world and immense strengths in its core industry sectors and in dispute resolution and corporate disciplines. We will continue to drive forward with our existing strategy which has been relentlessly implemented by a talented management group of partners and professional managers."

James joined Clyde & Co in 1989 and has been a partner with the firm since 1998. He became a member of the Global Management Board in 2009 and has been instrumental in the international expansion of the firm in recent years, particularly in North America and Asia Pacific.

Clyde & Co opens new office in Atlanta

Clyde & Co's new Atlanta operation will be led by partners Bob Fisher and James Chin who join the firm from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.

The firm's Atlanta office will specialise in complex insurance, reinsurance and recovery claims with a particular focus on first party property, third party liability, construction, and catastrophic losses. Bob's experience includes actions at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts involving complex insurance coverage disputes including property and business interruption claims, appraisals, construction and engineering defect claims, large scale subrogation recovery disputes and other commercial matters. James' commercial litigation and insurance practices focus on complex contractual disputes as well as insurance coverage and subrogation matters.

Clyde & Co is pleased to announce the establishment of a Joint Law Venture (JLV) with Chongqing law firm Westlink Partnership.

The JLV, which is licenced by the PRC Ministry of Justice/Chongqing Bureau of Justice, offers local law and international services and will operate as Clyde & Co Westlink JLV. The JLV is also the first formally approved Joint Law Venture with an international law firm in Southwest China.

Clyde & Co opens in Spain

Clyde & Co will operate from offices in Cuzco, Madrid’s financial district, and will be led by partners Ignacio Figuerol, Ricardo Garrido, Miguel Relano and Pablo Guillén.

They have extensive experience in advising Lloyd’s syndicates and Spanish and international insurance and reinsurance companies on a wide range of complex contentious, transactional and regulatory matters. Particular areas of focus include: professional indemnity, financial institutions, D&O, product liability, engineering, construction, and regulatory. The partners will be joined by socios Ana Emparanza and Jesús Iglesias and associates Sofía García-Ollauri, Luis Enrique Rodríguez, and Alejandra Llobera.

Clyde & Co opens in Beijing

International law firm Clyde & Co has been granted a licence by China's Ministry of Justice to open an office in Beijing.

The Beijing office will be Clyde & Co's third in China, with offices already in Hong Kong (1981) and Shanghai (2006). The establishment of a Beijing office will enable more effective servicing of Beijing-based clients and provide the firm with a platform for further growth in the Greater China region.

Clyde & Co announce joint Law venture in Singapore

Association with Khan Lex Advocates LLC

Clyde & Co announced its association with Mongolian law firm Khan Lex Advocates LLC in March of 2012. Read the press release here.

Mongolia is one of the world's fastest growing economies and one of Asia's most exciting emerging markets. With its enormous mineral wealth, the country is expected to see a steady increase in mining, trade, financial services, projects and infrastructure work.

Khan Lex Advocates have a background in both the private sector and in the Mongolian government legal service. The team played a key role in the drafting of legislation including the first Minerals Code, the Foreign Investment Code, Finance Lease Code, Civil Code, the State Property Law and Company, Securities, Arbitration and Tax Laws as well as other legislation connected with infrastructure, employment and governance.

Clyde & Co opens in Australia

Clyde & Co open in Libya

Clyde & Co has announced the opening an office in Tripoli, the firm’s fifth in the Middle East and North Africa region. Read the press release here.

2011

Merger of Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert

On 1 November 2011, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Clyde & Co merged. Grounded in international trade and insurance, the combined firm has unique strengths.

One of the top dispute resolution practices of any leading firms in the UK and Asia with global coverage and particular strengths across emerging markets

Unrivalled, in-depth sector focus and expertise across both contentious and transactional disciplines in our core sectors

An insurance and reinsurance practice with unmatched expertise in every class and across the world’s markets. With the highest number of leading practitioners of any insurance law firm, we provide the international insurance market with unique strength and capability

The benefits of one of the largest employment practices of any City law firm together with market-leading teams in corporate, regulatory, health & safety and the environment, global compliance and real estate

Expertise delivered from 32 offices around the world with a long established practice in the Middle East, a rapidly expanding presence across the US, Canada and South America and now a significant business in Asia

Clyde & Co open new office in Riyadh

Doha office opens

Abu Dhabi Office opened

In 2004 Clyde & Co open an office in Abu Dhabi.

1989

Dubai office opened

Clyde & Co opened office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

1984

Michael Payton made Senior Partner of Clyde & Co

Michael Payton led a process of expansion and diversification. In particular, he brought into the firm its first non-contentious company lawyers, thus broadening the scope of the practice from its previous concentration on marine and insurance litigation.

1981

Clyde opens first overseas office

Clyde & Co's first overseas office was opened in Hong Kong in 1981. Many others followed in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and North America.